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...cold-shouldered when he thought it up last year. Fogarty wanted the U.S. to withhold Britain's $687,100,000 share of ECA dollars until the Redcoats got out of Northern Ireland. Last week Congressmen with Irish names, and others who were only looking for a chance to embarrass the Administration, suddenly and whimsically leaped aboard Fogarty's dream boat. After being assured that they could duck out again whenever they wanted, they voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fogarty's Dream Boat | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...pronoun is not likely to embarrass many U.S. gatherings. The American Book of Common Prayer and most Protestant denominations use the "who" as does the American Revised Standard version. More likely source of confusion: the Catholic version ends after "deliver us from evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics Among Protestants | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Extrasensory Rejection. In London, Maurice Fogel unsuccessfully tried to get excused from registering for jury duty, on the grounds that his ability to read minds might embarrass the court when the trial started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Inexplicable. It was the 24th day of the second trial. Murphy rumbled casually: "Would it embarrass you if I asked you about some of the suicides in your family?" Said Hiss softly: "No." There had been two, his father and his sister? Hiss said: "That is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Enemy | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Wayne C. Grover announced. Sealed for another 25 years: papers that might embarrass the living, or prejudice U.S. relations with friendly foreign powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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